Fluent with Friends Success Guide

General Tips on How to Massively Succeed with this Course

Aww Yeah, RealLifer!!!

This is Justin, your RealLife Fluency Coach. This guide will provide you with critical
instructions for your first week, an overview of the course, as well a series of “ninja tips”
and strategies for your success.

We are super excited to get the ball rolling (to get started) with a few simple, but powerful
first steps on your Fluent with Friends Adventure.

Our goal with this course to help you build and discover:

 An effective real world learning process that brings you short-term AND
long-term results in using English and understanding native speakers (both in
media and in-person)
 A fun and engaging learning experience that motivates you to take the
consistent daily action you need to make consistent progress on your journey to
true, lifelong fluency.

What are your goals? Please, take a moment to respond to the first e-mail, introduce
yourself, and let us know what your goals are for this course. This will help us get to know
you better, and work with you throughout the course.

We would love to hear from you.

Your Mission for Week One

Your mission for this first week of Fluent with Friends is simple but important:
Get oriented with the materials, prepare your mindset and motivation, and take action to
start building the learning habits you’ll need to step up your level and succeed with this
course.

Here are your first steps:

1. Read and Understand this Guide (let us know if you have any doubts)
2. Have a Quick Look at the Power Lesson
3. Read the RealLife Power Learning Guide: Specific Instructions on How to Use
the Materials
4. Watch Friends Episode 01. Get at least a general idea of what happens in the
first episode, how the materials are organized, and how our method works.
5. Check out Memrise and get in the habit of spending 5-10 minutes studying the
vocabulary. Memrise App | FwF S01E01 on Memrise (Memrise Website)
 6. Join the Fluency Circle Community on Facebook and/ or WhatsApp
o Facebook: Request access to the group here (please answer a few basic
questions to verify your participation in the course).
o WhatsApp: If you would like to participate in our Global WhatsApp group
with other members of the course (it’s more like a chat room actually), please
send me a message at +55 +1 31 99144 7512, letting me know who you are and
9709462899
that you’d like to join (if you don’t have it yet, download WhatsApp here)

Important: Remember, you will get the second lesson about 8 days after receiving the
first, so that’s your deadline (and then it should be every week). If you don’t receive the
lesson when you’re supposed to, please e-mail us and we’ll fix the problem.

Ninja Success Tip: Persistence, NOT Perfection

Perfection is NOT required, but Persistence IS: You don’t

need to learn 100% of the information for each episode to be
successful, but you do need to persist and not give up. For the
first week, we highly recommend you relax into your process, get
oriented with the materials, the method, cultivate the right
mindset, and watch and enjoy this awesome TV series.

Remember that this a weekly process/ cycle, and to be successful

you need to get in the habit of putting one foot in front of the
other and improve your performance week by week. If you fall
behind, that’s okay, just restart the habit. And if you let us know,
we can pause your lesson delivery or return you to a previous
lesson at any moment.

As the new lesson/ episode arrives each week, we recommend that you quickly finish the
last one, do your best to understand the storyline, and renew your commitment to making
the next week even better.

This is a marathon, not a sprint, but if your efforts are consistent, sincere, and intelligent,
you will start to see the results accumulate in the coming weeks and months. .

Overview of Fluent with Friends Course Content

 Power Lessons (Weekly) are 17-20 page PDF guides for each episode, taking
you on a tour of American English via one of the most popular and hilarious TV
series ever, Friends. Each Power Lesson breaks down the entire transcript, with
pictures and original explanations of all the most important vocabulary, slang,
pronunciation, jokes, as well as cultural and grammar references. Season 1 alone
has over 430 pages of Power Lessons.

 Memrise Vocabulary Lessons (Weekly) is one of the world’s most innovative

new vocabulary training resources. With FwF, we teach you the 30 most essential
vocabulary words/ expressions from each episode, complete with pictures,
 explanations, pronunciation (slow and then fast), as well as diverse learning
activities. Season 1 alone covers over 720 new words and expressions.

We highly recommend downloading the app on your phone and practicing in

convenient moments, such as when waiting in lines, when you’re bored. It even
makes a game out of it so you can complete on the All Time Leaderboard for
vocabulary with other Fluent with Friends members from the past and present (see
picture).
The Science Behind Memrise
Why Memrise is the best | Download the Mobile App

 Access to the Fluency Circle Community (Facebook + WhatsApp): You get

access to our international group of super-special all-star global citizens, the
RealLife Fluency Circle, on both Facebook and WhatsApp. WhatsApp is an active,
24/ 7 source of international sharing and chit-chat, while Facebook will offer you
more direct announcements and clarification for any questions or doubts you have
about the episode.

 Clarify Your Doubts/ Questions

(Weekly): Delivered straight to your e-mail,
each week/ episode has an accompanying post
in the Fluency Circle Facebook group, which
gives you the chance to ask any questions,
clarify any doubts, and also participate in a
conversation with other Fluency Circle
members about each episode. For example,
here’s a link to the post from episode 01.

Important: to be able to access these posts, you

must request access to the group here, and
please answer the questions we ask you.

 Vocabulary & Pronunciation Review MP3s (Weekly Bonuses): Episode 1

and 2 come with recorded video webinars (conducted by Justin and Max) reviewing
the entire episodes and Power Lessons. From lessons 3-24, Standard and Premium
members receive weekly MP3s, recorded by Ethan and Justin, offering extra help
with pronunciation and vocabulary.

 Fluent with Friends Glossary: This is a Google excel file with access to
vocabulary explanations for the entire first two seasons. It’s a mammoth vocabulary
resources and a point of reference throughout the entire course. Access here.

 Continual Support and Guidance (E-mail): If you have any questions or

concerns, we are just an e-mail away. You can reach us by responding to the e-mails
you receive from us, or just writing to us at FluencyTeam@RealLifeGlobal.com, or
 Ethan@RealLifeGlobal.com. If you have any specific issues and want to connect
with me personally, you can reach me at Justin@RealLifeGlobal.com.

 Other Materials: Depending on your level of membership, we will start

introducing access to other features throughout the course.

Ninja Success Tip: Optimize Your Mindset

If you read the RealLife English blog or listen to
our podcast, you’ve seen us promote mindset as
the golden key to not just learning English, but
success in anything.

This is because it’s been scientifically

demonstrated over and over again that mindset is
fundamental to motivation, habits, and your
entire learning process, ultimately determining
whether you succeed or fail.

To drive home this point (transmit the full force of the idea), I’m going to borrow a quote
from the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to describe the impact that a simple
change in mindset can cause:

“First, your growth will be evolutionary, but the net effect will be
revolutionary.”

We highly recommend for all Fluent with Friends

students to at least check out our Mindset
Optimization Workbook we have available for FREE
download here.

The guide will guide you through explanations,

activities, and resources that will help you activate
your natural curiosity, get and stay motivated, set
goals, build and keep strong habits, as well as plan and
register your learning.

Even if you’re highly motivated and feel good about

your process, it’s important to note that building the
right mindset is a lifelong optimization process,
exactly like fluency in a language.

As we mentioned above, the goal of this guide is to provide you with general tips on how to
be massively successful with this course. Now that you have a strategic foundation for
your success, I would like to invite you to explore specific instructions on how to use the
materials with the RealLife Power Learning Method.